The agency is advising doctors in the hurricane zone to pay attention to symptoms that could be related to CO poisoning. “If used or placed improperly, these sources can lead to CO (carbon monoxide) buildup inside buildings, garages, or campers and poison the people and animals inside," the CDC said. The storm has knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses and people could turn to “alternate power sources such as gasoline generators and may use propane or charcoal grills for cooking,” the CDC said. He said southeast Louisiana will soon “move toward long-term recovery and will be facing the same issues that we face in Lake Charles” - Issues that most South Louisianans will be facing for months and years to come.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Alert Network advisory Thursday warning of the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, which slammed into the Louisiana coast early Thursday as a powerful Category 4 storm. More: Louisiana's Hurricane Ida recovery inches forward with thousands displaced, structures wiped out More: Returning the favor: Southwest Louisiana schools, communities rally for those hit by Hurricane Ida “And I think that’s a travesty, and I think that’s a glaring embarrassment on a national level,” said Hunter.Įven in the process of long-term recovery, Lake Charles organizations and churches have already hosted supply and donation drives, and Hunter believes the southwest Louisiana community will lend a hand now to help the urgent needs of southeast Louisiana. Lake Charles - experiencing four natural disasters in one year with two hurricanes, a freeze and a flood - has received zero in such funding. “From the public’s side of it, our FEMA reimbursement, we feel that we are maybe 25% complete,” said Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter. “However, on the private side, I think that we are probably less than that because of the lack of supplemental disaster aid.”įederal supplemental disaster aid, formally known as Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery, supplied $9 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and $650 million after the 2016 flood in Baton Rouge. 29, and Ida’s landfall as a Category 4 left the city in shambles similar to Lake Charles.ĭebris is still scattered around Lake Charles as businesses remain untouched, with 21% of businesses failing to renew tax forms this year. Ida’s eye swept through Luling as a Category 3 storm on Aug. Vial’s hometown, Luling, is a small community with 5% of the population of Baton Rouge. “I really thought for a 2-hour window there, when the eye was over us, that we were not going to make it,” said LSU junior Dena Vial. Just over a year after the destruction of Laura, another Category 4 storm pummeled the Gulf Coast, sparing southwest Louisiana but leaving southeast Louisiana in the eye of the storm. “Our house still has a massive hole in the ceiling,” said Owen.įOR SUBSCRIBERS: How Ida stacks up to historic hurricanes Owen is heartbroken every time she returns to her hometown as blue tarps still coat many homes and less than 13% of homes have begun the reconstruction process, according to the city. “It’s so-much-worse-than-I thought kind of thing.” “It was just like, this is unreal,” said LSU junior and Lake Charles native Meredith Owen. Watch Video: Victims of Hurricane Ida have a long road aheadīATON ROUGE - Lake Charles residents have been trudging through recovery from the catastrophic Category 4 storm Hurricane Laura for over a year.
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